William Young Ottley, 1771–1836, Britishformerly attributed to John Brown, 1749–1787, British
Title:
Prospero Summoning Ariel
Date:
ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, graphite, gouache, white chalk, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 7/16 x 8 1/8 inches (31.6 x 20.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in graphite lower right in monogram: "WB"; not dated
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.5645
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
cape | staff | man | magic | robe | woman | flying | magician | literary theme | cave | spirit | plays by William Shakespeare | The Tempest, play by William Shakespeare
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)The Fuseli Circle in Rome - Early Romantic Art in the 1770s (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-09-12 - 1979-11-11)
Publications:
Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 38, 104, no. 98, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)Nancy L. Pressly, The Fuseli circle in Rome : Early Romantic art of the 1770s, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, p. 144, no. 146, N6425 .N4 P73 (YCBA)Sotheby's sale catalogue : catalogue of the drawings and designs by the late William Young Ottley, Esq. F.A.S. : 10 May 1838, Sotheby's, London, 1838, p. 3, lot 14, Art Sales Catalogues OnlineScott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 54-5, no. 42, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)